Sunday, November 27, 2011

• New York Times – A New Urgency to the Problem of Storing Nuclear Waste – Kate Galbraith
• Statesman Journal – Cleanup effort needs more time
• Oak Ridger – Meeting the increasing demand for production in the ’80s – D. Ray Smith
• Florida Today – Plutonium disaster plan back on shelf – Don Walker
• Lynchburg News and Advance – Expert advises a ‘citizens committee’ for uranium issue – Tara Bozick
• Bloomberg – Pentagon Budget Cut of $1 Trillion Is Possibility, However Not Wise: View
• Oceania: The Australian – Union digs in over uranium for India
• Europe: John O’Groat Journal – Work begins to bury Dounreay experiment
• Europe: AP Google – German police clear huge sit-in at nuke protest – Juergen Baetz
• Europe: AFP Google – German police battle nuclear protesters on railway – Frederic Happe
• Europe: BBC News – German police clear nuclear waste train protest
• Europe: Bloomberg – German Police Detain 1,300 at Anti-Nuclear Protesters, AP Says – Stefan Nicola
• Europe: The Guardian – Eyewitness: German anti-nuclear activists protest at radioactive waste train
• East Europe: Reuters – Police break up tent protest in Ukraine, one dies – Lina Kushch

Saturday, November 26, 2011

• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Uranium enrichment and politics – Frank Munger
• Lynchburg News and Advance – VML: don’t consider uranium mining ban in 2012
• AllGov – NASA Launches 10 Pounds of Plutonium…Hopefully beyond the Atmosphere
• Canada: National Post blog – FP’s Lawrence Solomon: Canada’s bad ­radiation cancer data – Lawrence Solomon
• South Asia: IBNLive – ‘Enrichment capacity enough to fuel nuke subs’
• Europe: AP Google – German police, protesters clash at nuke protest – Juergen Baetz
• Europe: AFP Google – Last nuclear waste train heads to Germany
• Europe: BBC News – Protesters try to halt nuclear waste train in Germany
• Europe: Xinhua News – French nuclear waste train enters Germany, protests expected

Friday, November 25, 2011

• Las Vegas City Life – A little bit nuclear–Some Nevada Republicans push a controversial compromise on Yucca – Dennis Myers
• St. George Daily Spectrum – Radiation exposure clinic visits available
• KOB – LANL: More time needed to meet cleanup goals
• Richmond Times Dispatch – Water group releases report on uranium mining – Tara Bozick
• New York Times – Loan Request by Uranium-Enrichment Firm Upends Politics as Usual – Matthew L. Wald
• Canada: PEJ News – TEPCO: Reprocessing irradiated nuclear fuel as part of the Canadian nuclear agenda – Gordon Eddwards
• Oceania: Sydney Morning Herald – No fuel like an old fuel: Germany’s nuclear reaction provides a win for coal – Dr Oliver Marc Hartwich
• Europe: BBC News – Work starts on Dounreay low-level waste store – John O’Groat Journal
• Europe: The Scotsman – Building work begins on vaults to bury Dounreay’s radioactive waste
• Europe: STV.tv – Nuclear test veteran describes fear at bomb site
• Europe: STV.tv – Work begins to bury 240,000 tonnes of radioactive waste – Leanna MacLarty
• Europe: World Nuclear News – Construction starts on Dounreay vaults
• Europe: AFP Google – Protests await nuclear waste train in Germany – Frederic Happe
• Europe: BBC News – German protests as nuclear train enters from France
• Europe: Reuters – French nuclear waste train enters Germany – Marie Maitre
• East Europe: RT – Legal fallout bans Chernobyl zone tourism
• East Europe: Xinhua News – Ukraine court bans tourism in Chernobyl nuclear zone

Thursday, November 24, 2011

• Cherry Hill Courier Post – Shieldalloy appeals ruling
• Times of Trenton – Opinion: Reduction of nuclear weapon stockpiles has led to peaceful, powerful uses of uranium
• Oceania: Caledonian Mercury – OpEd: Safe or not safe? The doublespeak over depleted uranium – Bill Wilson
• Europe: Manx Radio – Nuclear test compensation case adjourned
• Europe: News & Star – Rise in radioactivity levels found in drain near Sellafield – Alan Irving
• Europe: STV.tv – Nuclear test veterans continue fight for government compensation
• Europe: AP Google – Nuclear waste shipment to Germany draws protests
• Europe: AFP Google – France delays nuclear train amid German demo threats – Paul Aubriat
• Europe: BBC News – Germany nuclear protesters clash with police
• Europe: BBC News – French protesters and police clash over nuclear train
• Europe: Deutsche Welle – A nuclear waste train is en route to Germany, but by which route? – Mark Hallam
• Europe: Radio Netherlands – Greenpeace protests at nuclear dump plans
• Europe: World Nuclear News – Brussels considers nuclear regulation upgrade
• Europe: Swissinfo – Costs rise for decommissioning atomic plants

Wednesday, November 23, 2011

• Messenger Index – Downwinders get their day
• Knoxville News Sentinel – Frank Munger: Preservation on the cheap
• Health and Human Services Department – NOTICES Meetings: Subcommittee for Dose Reconstruction Reviews (SDRR), Advisory Board on Radiation and Worker Health (ABRWH or the Advisory Board), National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) Pages 72416-72417 [FR DOC# 2011-30233]
• Europe: BBC News – Mysterious radioactive beach in Scotland
• Europe: Jarrow & Hebburn Gazette – New year ruling for A-bomb vets – Terry Kelly
• Europe: John O’Groat Journal – Green light for transfer of spent nuclear fuel from Dounreay – Iain Grant
• Europe: The Register – Radiation Terror on Scottish beach! Except it’s quite safe – Lewis Page
• Europe: AP Google – French riot police clash with anti-nuke protesters
• Europe: AFP Google – French nuclear protesters clash with police – Chloe Coupeau
• Europe: BBC News – French riot police battle protesters over nuclear train
• Europe: The Local France – Protests as nuclear train heads to Germany
• Europe: Reuters – Update 1-Nuclear waste train spurs protests in France

Tuesday, November 22, 2011

• Tri-Valley CAREs – New DOE Inspector General Report Says DOE Should Consider Closing Facilities, Re-examining the Sustainability of Federal Facility Agreements, and Abolishing NNSA – Scott Yundt
• Congressman ED Markey (D-MA) – Possible Whistleblower Retaliation, Unsafe Operations at Hanford Nuclear Waste Plant
• Bloomberg – Hanford Nuclear Waste’s Safety May Not Be Assured by U.S., Markey Says – Brian Wingfield
• Tri-City Herald – Some vit plant legal deadlines at risk, DOE reports – Annette Cary
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Is Y-12’s ‘Blue Line’ Union Carbide blue? – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Y-12 helps the rural hungry – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – ORNL’s Andrews to head Tennessee Academy of Science – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Big bucks, big job, big questions – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – DOE adept at spending other agencies’ $$$ – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – EPA looking for scientific advice – Frank Munger
• Knoxville News Sentinel blog – Sens. Corker, Alexander on Super failure – Frank Munger
• DOE:IG – Management Challenges at the Department of Energy – Fiscal Year 2012, IG-0858
• Canada: Sault Star – Get goods on nuclear waste pitch, residents urged – Shirley Mills
• Oceania: Green Left Weekly – Gillard’s uranium backflip is totally irresponsible
• Oceania: News Limited – Aussie nuke testing victims receive compo
• Oceania: Port Lincoln Times – Maralinga survivor wants justice
• South Asia: AFP Google – India eyes Australia uranium assets: report
• Europe: BBC News – Announcement expected on Dounreay firm’s new owner
• Europe: BBC News – Councils to get some Dounreay-Sellafield train details
• Europe: Fife Today – MoD will ‘continue’ to assist in the disposal of Fife radioactive finds
• Europe: Press Association – Brown call on radioactive particles
• Europe: Scotland Courier – Dalgety Bay radiation: Gordon Brown calls for clean-up and health checks
• Europe: STV.tv – Fife beach could be declared radioactive contaminated land
• Europe: Westmorland Gazette – More trains to carry nuclear waste Cumbria

Monday, November 21, 2011

• Seattle Post Intelligencer – DOE review raises concerns about Hanford plant – Shannon Dininny
• Tri-City Herald – Hanford: DOE says vit plant may miss new consent decree deadlines – Annette Cary
• KRGV – Hudspeth County steers nuclear waste project away
• Longview News-Journal – Nuclear waste project withdrawn
• Oak Ridger – Changes continue into the 1970s at the Y-12 plant – D. Ray Smith
• Associated Content – Taking on the Government–2000 EEOICPA Act – Jo Anne (Jody) Bresch
• NAS – Project Update: Gulf War and Health: Treatment of Chronic Multisymptom Illness
• Energy Department – NOTICES Meetings: Environmental Management Advisory Board Meeting Page 71959 [FR DOC# 2011-29716]
• Nuclear Regulatory Commission – NOTICES Draft Interim Staff Guidance; Availability, etc.: Draft Interim Staff Guidance: Evaluations of Uranium Recovery Facility Surveys of Radon and Radon Progeny in Air and Demonstrations of Compliance Pages 72006-72007 [FR DOC# 2011-29987]
• Central Asia: Bloomberg – Kazatomprom to Spend $400 Million on Solar, Nuclear Fuel in 2012 – Svetlana Antoncheva
• Europe: BBC News – Trains to take Dounreay nuclear fuel to Sellafield
• Europe: Cumberland News – West Cumbrian public get say over nuclear waste site search – Victoria Brenan
• Europe: Donside Today – Train to move Dounreay nuclear fuel
• Europe: New Civil Engineer – Dounreay radioactive waste disposal facility construction to begin this week
• Europe: Scotland Courier – MoD accused of failing to treat Dalgety Bay radiation problem with enough urgency
• Europe: STV.tv – Trains will transport nuclear fuel from Dounreay – Leanna MacLarty